Beck, Glenn, 165
Behrens, Ron, 217
Belgium, 213
Bergen, Peter, 196
Berlitz, Charles, 125, 364, 366, 375
Bermuda Triangle, 364, 367, 372–81, 393
Bermuda Triangle, The (Berlitz), 375
Bermuda Triangle Mystery—Solved, The (Kusche), 376
Bible code, 58–61, 394
Bible Code, The (Drosnin), 59, 76, 394
Bible Code II (Drosnin), 60
Bieber, Justin, 109
Bigfoot, 14, 24, 26, 30, 116, 333, 339–49
Binet, Alfred, 52, 53
birth weight, 231
Blackmore, Susan, 40
Blasingame, Loretta, 368–70
Bodnath Stupa, 312
Borman, Frank, 91
Brazel, Mack, 123
Brinkley, David, 167
British Medical Association, 214
Bronson, Charles, 62
Browning, Shawn R., 239
Buddha, 201
Bush, George W., 164, 193, 195, 255, 275–76
CAM (complimentary and alternative medicine), 201–209
Carpenter, Scott, 91
Carroll, Robert Todd, 372
Carroll, Sean M., 40
Case for Reincarnation, The (Danelek), 66
Case of the Ancient Astronauts, The (NOVA television program), 101
Casey Anthony murder trial, 168
Caveman Logic: The Persistence of Primitive Thinking in a Modern World (Davis), 31, 201
Cayman Islands, 84, 184, 223–25, 368, 373
CDC. See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Census of Marine Life, 336
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 240
Central African Republic (witchcraft court cases in), 356
Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA
Cernan, Gene, 91–93
Chabris, Christopher, 116, 192
Chaikin, Andrew, 89
Chariots of the Gods? (Von Däniken), 100
Cheney, Dick, 195
Cherne, Jack, 91
“child witches,” 355–56
Chopra, Deepak, 28
Christians, 63, 82–83
Christopher, Kevin, 363
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 285, 310–11
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 383
Clancy, Susan A., 134–35
Clarke, Arthur C., 167
Clay, Bryan, 188
climate change (global warming), 161–66, 337, 412–13
Coast Guard (US), 375, 380
cold reading, 42–46
Cold War, 70, 89, 94, 122 124, 193, 386, 388, 411
Colosseum, 106
Colquhoun, David, 215
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, 333
complimentary and alternative medicine. See CAM
confirmation bias, 29–31, 43, 71, 165, 194–95, 252, 261, 291
conspiracy theories, 192–97
Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? (Fox television documentary), 97
countermeasures (as UFOs), 113–14
Cousteau, Jacques, 334
Cowherd, Colin, 128
Coyne, Jerry, 276
creationism, 175, 259–72
Creation Museum, 303, 158
cryptozoology, 333–49
cults, 296–99
CVS (pharmacy), 214
Danelek, Alan J., 66, 67
Danube River, 78
Darwin, Charles, 261, 262, 266, 276–77
Davis, Hank, 31, 201, 323
Dawkins, Richard, 266
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (film), 109, 414
Deadly Choices: How the Anti Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Offit), 237
Dead Sea Scrolls, 308
Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Deep, The (Nouvian), 337
Deer, Brian, 236
De Garis, Hugo, 413
Democratic Republic of Congo, 173
Demon-Haunted World, The (Sagan), 178
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Specter), 236
diabetes, 230–31
Diamond, Jared, 180
Dick, Philip K., 259
DiMaggio, Joe, 128
Discover (magazine), 177
Dollar, Creflo A., 315
Drosnin, Michael, 59, 60, 394
DTP (vaccine), 238
Duke, Charlie, 91, 92
Easter Island, 106
Edwards v. Aguillard (US Supreme ourt case), 273–74
Egypt, 101
Einstein, Albert, 53
Emperor's New Clothes, The (Graves), 180
ESP (extrasensory perception), 25, 33, 68–73
Ethiopians (as elite runners), 188
evolution, 149, 158, 175, 259–72
extinction (of humans), 407–16
extrasensory perception. See ESP
faith healing, 218–25, 248
famine, 168
Feder, Kenneth, 365–66
Feynman, Richard, 147
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God (Harrison), 248
Fish, Jefferson M., 72
flares (as UFOs), 113–14
Flight 19, 375–77
Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, 375
Fort Worth Army Air Base, 124
Frank, Anne, 157
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (Feder), 365
Friedman, Stanton, 125
Gaddafi, Muamar, 78
Gaddis, Vincent, 374
Galapagos Rift, 365
Gardner, Daniel, 174
General Medical Council, 236
Genius in All of Us, The (Shenk), 51, 56
genome, 230
germs, 411–12
ghosts, 323–32
Gigantopithecus, 343, 346
Gildenberg, B. D., 121, 123, 124, 127
Gimlin, Bob, 345
global warming, 161–66, 337, 412–13
Gobekli Tepe, 104, 106
gods (existence of), 245–49
Goldacre, Ben, 212
Goodall, Jane, 24, 343
Gore, Al, 163–64
gossip, 196
Goya, Francisco, 333
Graves, Joseph L., Jr., 180, 186
Great Rift Valley, 190
Groom Lake, 382
Hahnemann, Samuel, 211–13
Hammonds, Evelyn, 180
Hannity, Sean, 165
Hansen, James, 161
haunted houses, 328–32
Hawk, Tony, 377
Hawking, Stephen, 140, 407
heaven, 368–71
Heironimus, Bob, 346
Herzl, Theodor, 286
Heston, Charlton, 109
Hinduism, 63, 246, 247, 252, 256, 292
Hines, Terrence, 225, 372
Hinn, Benny, 218–22, 315–19, 347
Hister, 78
History Channel, 75
Hitchens, Christopher, 100
Hitler, Adolf, 77, 78, 154, 156, 158
Hitler Youth, 156
Holocaust, 59, 154–60, 175, 286
homeopathic medicine, 23, 26, 201, 203–205, 210–17
Homestead, Florida, 172, 373
Horner, Jack, 261
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, 215
Hurricane Andrew, 172, 373
Hussein, Saddam, 78
Idaltu Man, 265
inattentional blindness, 116–17
intelligence, 51–57
intelligent design, 28, 112, 158, 175, 273–78, 280
Invisible Gorilla (Chabris and Simons), 116, 192
Jacobi, Walter, 91
Jenkins, Russel, 217
Jerusalem, 284–87, 308, 310–11
Jesus, 223, 224, 247, 248, 285, 287, 292, 307, 310–13, 318, 369–70, 397, 399
Johanson, Donald, 263, 265
Johnson, Magic, 189
Jones, Jim, 297
Jonestown, 296–98
&n
bsp; Jordan, Michael, 189
Kamper, Mineke, 216–17
Kean, Leslie, 118
Keegan, John, 154
Kelenjin, 189
Kennedy, John F., 59, 60, 194
Kenyans (as elite runners), 188–91
Kida, Thomas, 68
Kirshenbaum, Sheril, 167
Kittinger, Joe, 126
KKK. See Ku Klux Klan
Kor, Eva Mozes, 157–58
Koran code, 60
Kranz, Gene, 91
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 158
Kurzweil, Ray, 404
Kusche, Larry, 376–79
Laden, Osama bin, 78
Lancet (journal), 236
Layton, Deborah, 296–99
LeDermann, Barbara, 157
Left Behind (book series), 403
Lehmann, Armin, 156
Leininger, James, 65–66
Lewis, Mark, 113–14
Limbaugh, Rush, 165
Lipton, Carwood, 156
Littlewood, John, 83–84
Loch Ness monster, 343
Loftus, Elizabeth, 135
Lohan, Lindsay, 176
Long, Greg, 346
Lowell, Percival, 150
Luckhoo, Lionel, 399
lunar module, 96
Macknic, Stephen L., 116
magic, 149, 354–59
Making of Bigfoot, The (Long), 346
Malik, Kenan, 228–29
Marcel, Jesse, 124, 125
Marks, Jonathan, 229, 275
Marley, Bob, 223
Martinez-Conde, Susana, 116
Mask of Nostradamus, The (Randi), 75, 77
Mayan 2012 doomsday prediction, 391–96
McDivitt, Jim, 91
measles, 233, 234, 236–38, 240
Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers Mislead Us (Radford), 170
Medina, John, 108
Meldrum, Jeff, 347
memory, 31–32, 115–16, 127–29
Mencken, Carson, 350
Mengele, Joseph, 157–58
Mercury Seven, 91
miracles, 81–86, 104, 218, 257, 302, 307, 316, 357
MMR (vaccine), 237, 239, 240
Moby Dick (Melville), 60
Mohammed, 247, 311
Mooney, Chris, 167
Moosa, Tauriq, 29, 42, 46–47
Morris, Phillip, 346
Morris Costumes, 346
Morrison, David, 391, 394, 395
Morrison, Jim, 314
Mothers' Index, 294
Mumbai, India, 62
Mystery Chronicles, The (Nickell), 332
Napoleon, 78
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 89–94, 175, 342, 394, 410
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. See NASA
National Football League. See NFL
National Geographic (magazine), 177
Nature (journal), 184
Nature Genetics (journal), 229
Navy (US), 239, 380
Navy SEALS (US), 78
near-death experience, 36–41
Nelson, Kevin, 39, 41
nematode worm, 338
Nevada, 382–85
New Scientist (magazine), 177, 342
Newton, Isaac, 53, 148
Nibiru, 395
Nickell, Joe, 310, 312, 313, 331–32
9/11 attacks, 78–79, 174, 193
Nixon, Richard, 90
NFL (National Football League), 51, 187
Noah's ark, 300–304, 400
Noelle, David C., 250
Nostradamus, 288, 393–94
Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies (Hogue), 79
Nouvian, Claire, 337
Obama, Barack, 227–28
O'Brien, Dan, 188
Offit, Paul, 237–38, 240, 244
O'Kane, James, 91
Old Town, San Diego, 328
Olympics, 187–91, 224, 345
“one-drop rule,” 184
optical illusions, 32
out-of-body experiences, 37–40
Pakistan, 204
Palin, Sarah, 164, 357
Paradise Ranch, 382
Paranormal America (Bader, Mencken, and Baker), 350
Park, Robert L., 279
Parthenon, 106
Patterson, Roger, 345
Patterson Bigfoot film, 345–47
Pauling, Linus, 151
Pearl Harbor, 77
Peoples Temple, 297
Pima (Native Americans), 230–31
Plait, Phil, 13, 117, 139
Planet of the Apes (1968 film), 109, 346
Planet X, 395
Plato, 273, 364
Plutarch, 417
Poe, Edgar Allen, 36
Pope John Paul II, 262, 398
Popoff, Peter, 318
postdiction, 60
poverty and prayer, 293–95
prayer, 290–95
and poverty, 293–95
Prince Charles, 211
Project Mogul, 121–27, 193
prophecy, 283–89
Prothero, Stephen, 255
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (Hines), 372
psychic detectives, 71–72
psychics, 14, 24, 25, 28, 29, 42–50, 70, 134, 142, 150, 175, 288, 292, 352, 417. See also psychic detectives
Pyramid of Djoser, 103–104
pyramids (Egyptian), 101–103, 105–106
Rabin, Yitzhak, 59
race
American Anthropological Association statement on, 226–27
and medicine, 226–32
races as cultural categories, 180–85
and sports, 186–91
Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Biological Diversity (Harrison), 55–56, 103
Race Myth, The (Graves), 186
Radford, Benjamin, 170–71, 333
RAND-MIPT terrorism database, 174
Randi, James, 17–18, 75–77, 79–80, 139, 318, 354
Rapture, 397–406
Rather, Dan, 170
Reagan, Ronald, 140
Redford, Donald, 104
reincarnation, 62–67, 324, 331
relics, 300–14
Relics of the Christ (Nickell), 310, 312
religion, 250–58
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn't (Prothero), 255
remote viewing, 70
Roberts, Oral, 315–16
Rose, Pete, 128
Roswell, 59, 98, 121–31, 193, 382, 384
Roswell Daily Record (newspaper), 123
“Roswell Report: Case Closed, The” (US Air Force), 127
Rotimi, Charles N., 229
Rovelli, Carlo, 147
Sagan, Carl, 28, 103, 132, 140, 178, 218
Sailing Alone around the World (Slocum), 377
Sam, Gloria Mary, 216
Saqqara, Egypt, 104
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (Meldrum), 347
Schmitt, Harrison, 92
Science of Fear, The (Gardner), 174
Scientific American (magazine), 177
scientists, 147–53
Scott, Dave, 91
Scott, William, 387–88
Sentinelese, 412
SETI Institute, 119, 382
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 245
Shenk, David, 51, 56
Shermer, Michael, 32, 70–71, 154, 158–59, 277, 368
Shostak, Seth, 108, 109, 119, 382, 386–87
sickle-cell disease, 228–29
Simons, Daniel, 116, 192
Singer, P. W., 388
Singularity, 404–405
Skeptic (magazine), 49, 70, 277
Skeptical Inquirer (magazine), 49
Skeptic's Dictionary, The (Carroll), 372
Slader, John, 108
sleep paralysis, 136–38
Sleights of Mind (Macknic and Martinez-Conde), 116
Slocum, Joshua, 377
Smith, Cameron M., 340–41
Smith, Kevin, 210
South Africa, 201–202, 204
Specter, Michael, 236
Stafford, Thomas, 91
Star Trek (television series), 109, 151
Stone of Unction, 310–11
supervolcano, 413
Toba supervolcano, 414
Swaggart, Jimmy, 316
Sweickart, Rusty, 91, 410
tardigrade, 337–38
Tay-Sachs disease, 229
televangelists, 315–19
television news, 167–79
Teller, Edward, 150
terrorism, 174–75
thimerosal, 237, 240
Thomas, Dave, 59
Thompson, Daley, 188
Titanic, 365
Toba supervolcano, 414
Turkey, 104
Tuskegee experiment, 151, 193
Twilight Zone, The (television series), 109
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 film), 346
2012 doomsday prediction, 391–96
2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya (Van Stone), 392
Tyson, Neil deGrasse, 273
UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), 119–20, 382, 388
UFOs (unidentified flying objects), 28, 31, 108–23, 125, 148, 325, 383–88
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on Record (Kean), 118
UNICEF, 233, 293, 319
unidentified flying objects. See UFOs
unmanned aerial vehicles. See UAVs
Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 237
vaccines, 208, 233–41, 293
Van Praagh, James, 48, 62, 323
Van Stone, Mark, 392
Venter, Craig, 337
Von Däniken, Erich, 100–107
Wakefield, Andrew, 236
Wallace, Michael, 340
Wallace, Ray, 340
Walsh, Don, 335
Ward, Frank, 36, 41
War of the Worlds (Wells), 121
Watergate, 90
Wicca, 357
Wienker, Curtis, 339–40
witches, 354–59
Wells, H. G., 121
Whaley House, 328–30
White, Nancy, 103
White, Tim, 259, 265
Why Darwin Matters (Shermer), 277
Wilson, Edward O., 300
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Singer), 388
Wiseman, Richard, 70
World Trade Center, 78, 194–96
World War II, 65
Wynne, Nick, 159
Yad Veshem Holocaust History Museum, 155
Young, John, 90, 91, 95
Zundel, Ernst, 159
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